How Many People Are Named Dorthy?
people named Dorthy are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 54,476 people in the US has this name
Based on 20,417 babies named Dorthy in Social Security records from 1885 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
700 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of DOROTHY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Dorthy in English. Counting Dorthy and these spellings together, about 259,242 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Dorthy (99.8%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Dorthy alive today is about 72 years old, and 83% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 66 and 84 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Dorthy first appears in the records in 1885 and was given most often in 1927, to 700 babies. In 2025, 8 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1885 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Dorthy has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #234, in 1930. In 2025 it ranked #11,187.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #11,187 |
| Best rank | #234 (1930) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #275 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Dorthy alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dorthy were born in Mississippi than in any other state: about 725 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dorthy was given 5.1 times as often in Arkansas, 5 times in Mississippi and 3.4 times in Tennessee.
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